[Vision2020] Dennis Ritchie

[Kenneth Marcy]

Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this 
past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further 
details are available at the time of this blog post.

Wikipedia biography here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie 

He was the co-inventor of the C programming language, and a central figure in 
the development of Unix. He spent much of his career at Bell Labs. He was 
awarded the Turing Award in 1983, and the National Medal of Technology in 
1999.

"Ritchie's influence rivals Jobs's; it's just less visible," James Grimmelman 
observed on Twitter. "His pointer has been cast to void *; his process has 
terminated with exit code 0."

The news of Ritchie's death was first made public by way of Rob Pike's Google+. 


http://tinyurl.com/4y7llyw

or

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-
unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html 


Ken